Software stored in NVM is called ____.

A(n) ____ is a ribbon of plastic with a coercible (usually metallic oxide) coating.

In most computers, an I/O port is a ____.

Magneto-optical technology peaked in the mid-1980s.

If the CPU is idle while a device completes an access request, the CPU cycles that could have been (but weren’t) devoted to instruction execution are called ____.

The ratio of cache hits to read accesses is called the cache’s ____.

The ____________________ data transfer rate is the fastest rate the drive can support.

When three cache levels are in use, the cache farthest from the CPU is called a ____ cache.

____ is a technique that reduces the number of bits used to encode data, such as a file or a stream of video images transmitted across the Internet.

Lossless compression ratios higher than 50:1 are difficult or impossible to achieve with audio and video data.